This concise specialist reference presents a primary framework for the layout and operation of solid-state fermentation bioreactors, allowing researchers at the moment operating at laboratory scale to scale up their techniques. The authors survey bioreactor kinds in universal use, and describe intensive find out how to plan a venture, and version warmth move phenomena.

The invention that nitrogen monoxide or nitric oxide (NO)is a biologically produced unfastened radical has revolutionized our pondering physiological and pathological strategies. This discovery has ignited huge, immense curiosity within the medical neighborhood. whilst generated at low degrees, NO is a signaling molecule, yet at excessive focus, NO is a cytotoxic molecule.

Volumes 23 and 24 of this hugely acclaimed sequence specialise in equipment used for the research of either ectomycorrhiza and vesicular-arbuscular mycorrhiza. Written by means of a crew of foreign specialists, those volumes include the main large compilation of equipment to be had in this topic.